Improved device fob securing stoppers to bottles



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, WiLLrAM H. RICHARDS, ofAuburndale, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Device for Securing Stoppers to Bottles, 83e.; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken* in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention suiiciernt to enable those skilled in the'art to practise it.

` In the transportation of demijohns by express, and in keeping bottles of choice or lvaluahle liquids in houses, offices, and other places frequented by other persons than'the owners thereof, greatl annoyance and serious losses often occur from the abstractiug disposition evinced, both by those into whose 'charge such vessels are delivered for transportation or safe-keeping, and by others who happen to have access thereto. To remove a cork is so easy a matter, that the ability so to do seems often to be provocative of the inclination.l

The object of my invention is to providea bottle, demijrohn, or other similar vessel, with a device through which the cork or stopper may be secured in place by a lock, in such manner that access may only bc had to the contents by means of a key to remove the lock or bolt; and it is in such a device that my invention consists. The drawing represents the top of a. bottle having its cork or stopper so secured.

a denotes the neck of a common bottle; Z), the bead or projecting surface usually 'formed thereupon; c, a

cap, made large enough to fit over'or receive the top ofthe cork or stopper, this cap being secured or connected to a. band or strap, d, which is wound around the bottle below the bead 6. One end ofthe band has a staple, e,

and the other end one or more slots,f, through either of which the staple may be slipped.. A tongue or hasp,

g, extends down from the cap, this part also having a slot, through which the staple may slip. Y v A The cork or stopper being in the bottle, the cap is slipped over it, and the band is wound around the neck, so as to it against the neck under the bead, the staple being slipped through the proper slot Vin the band, to hold the band in this position., Then the husp-slot is slipped over the staple, and a padlock, h, is applied to the staple, to secure the c'ap to the bottle, as seen in the drawing, the cork being new inaccessible,'excepting by unlocking and removing the padlock. The cap is shown as hinged tothe connecting-piece t', but the cap,A

band, hasp, and connecting-plate may all be made in one piece, or may be riveted or otherwise secured together, and the cap may be made in various other forms, the essence of my invention only requiring that the device Shall bc so constructed that when applied to the bottleovcr they cork,land its parts are locked together, the device shall aiord an effectual instrumentalityko prevent the removal of the cork, excepting by unfastening the lock. I

I claim a device for securing corks or Stoppers to bott-lcs, demijohns, Sie., substantially as described.

WM. II. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

'E GoULn,

J. B. Cnosnr. 

